If you notice the party scholars in your life walking with a bit of a spring in their step lately — including the authors of The Party Decides, who had kind of a rough 2016 — there’s good reason for this. … The Democratic Party just pulled off something in the space of us a few days that many of us weren’t sure a modern party could still do. It coordinated. And we weren’t sure whether the party could do it because we watched the Republican Party repeatedly fail to do this just four years ago. CONT.
Seth Masket (U. of Denver), Mischiefs of Faction